Joseph Wresinski (1917-1988)

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Biography
* Father Joseph Wresinski
Bibliography
* About F. Joseph Wresinski
* From F.Joseph Wresinski
Photographic library
* Places
* Portraits
Anthology
About the Children.
* Children of the Fourth World
Over Human Rights
* God’s Rights, Human Rights
* The very poor, living proof of the indivisibility of human rights
About Science and Knowledge
* A Knowledge That Leads to Action
* Defeating Extreme Poverty
Interviews
* "His Life, Our Life"
Reports
* Chronic Poverty and Lack of Basic Security
About Violence
* In the vicious circle of violence
* The Fourth World and Non-Violence
* The Violence Done To The Poor
Speeches and Messages
* A triple refusal
* Address to Young People
* An Appeal For Solidarity
* To the volunteers.
Volunteer’s Meetings
* Why Choose Poverty?
* Do the poor have their own culture?
* Poverty and means of communication.
Articles
* A community of shared destiny.
Spiritual Writings
* The Family - A Place To Live The Gospel
Conferences and seminars
Wresinski Colloquium at Sciences Po, Paris (F) 2008
An International Endeavor
* An International Endeavor
* People’s Initiatives in Bangladesh
Opening and plenaries
* Chronic poverty and exclusion
* Human rights and chronic poverty
Preparing documents and agenda
* Agenda and presentation
* Reading list
Workshops
* Abstracts
* Workshops
Audio-visual
* A 50-year fight against poverty


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Reading list
Wresinski colloquium, Sciences Po Paris 2008

Exclusion, a Challenge to Democracy. How Relevant is Joseph Wresinski’s Thinking?

An initial collection of writings by Joseph Wresinski has been compiled. This collection, also available in French and Spanish, is currently in the process of being translated. As a starting point, the following texts are already available in English.

On Knowledge
- A Knowledge that Leads to Action (La pensée des plus pauvres dans une connaissance qui conduise au combat)
- Defeating Extreme Poverty (Echec à la misère)

On Violence
- A Young Boy Caught in the Vicious Circle of Violence (Petit garçon dans le cercle infernal des violences)
- The violence done to the poor (La violence faite aux pauvres)

On Human Rights
- The Very Poor: Living Proof of the Indivisibility of Human Rights (Les plus pauvres, révélateurs de l’indivisibilité des droits de l’homme)
- God’s Rights, Human Rights (Grande pauvreté: droits de Dieu et droits de l’homme)

On Politics
- Chronic Poverty and Lack of Basic Security: The Wresinski Report of the Economic and Social Council of France (Grande pauvreté et précarité économique et sociale, rapport présenté au nom du Conseil économique et social)

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